Family

Chapter 302 Liar Revealed

By: Major144

Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.

In the cave, Gata, BMO, and Phoebe were stumbling around blindly through a cloud of dust caused by the collapsing of the cave mouth. The three were a bit battered, but weren't seriously hurt. The dust soon settled and everyone was able to see again.

"What happened?" Coughed Phoebe.

"The mouth of the cave collapsed and I'm pretty sure Warren had something to with it." Said Gata.

"Why do you think that?" Asked Phoebe.

"Because we discovered something Warren didn't want us to. Think back to when we first discovered this cave. He told us he didn't want to see it, but I think he didn't want us to see it for entirely different reasons. I've examined the bodies and there were no signs of any wounds or physical damage on any of them. Warren said that all these beings were killed by Ishcano, but that doesn't appear to be true at all. So Warren was lying about what killed these people. Not to mention the message we found saying this world is a lie. Then the mouth of the cave just collapsed as soon as we were going to find Jake and tell him what we found and I think Warren is responsible for that. Warren doesn't want us to talk to Jake." Said Gata.

"So...what exactly killed all these people?" Asked Phoebe indicating the skeletons.

"I'm not exactly sure yet, but I have a feeling Warren had something to do with it and whatever he did I think he intends to do to Jake." Said Gata.

"Well were not going to let him." Said Phoebe with determination.

"It's go time BMO." Said Gata.

"Ready to go." Said BMO as he changed into his mech form and towered over the two girls.

"That is so cool." Said Phoebe looking at the mech in awe.

"Thanks." Said Gata as she boarded the mech.

Phoebe summoned a flaming sword and started chopping rocks to bit, while Gata used her mech to throw rocks to the side or smash them to bits. Little by little the girls dug their way to freedom.

Back at Warren's house the sun was rising and the guys were waking up. Jake had gotten a goodnight sleep, but he still felt tired and weak and as he looked at the mirror in his bathroom, he saw he had wrinkles. Finn and Jermaine woke up a little later and took notice of their brothers tiredness and wrinkles, with a bit of concern.

"Bro you look terrible." Said Jermaine.

"Yeah man, I haven't seen you look this bad since that one time in that labyrinth, when you stretched yourself to your limit." Said Finn.

"I'm cool. Just need to get some coffee and some pancakes and I'll be fine." Said Jake.

Finn and Jermaine helped Jake to the kitchen and found him some pancakes and coffee. The three were enjoying themselves, when Warren walked into the kitchen looking chipper and a bit younger then the day before.

"Good morning boys. Isn't this a lovely morning? I can feel that today is going to be a good day." Said Warren.

"Your looking good today." Said Finn taking notice of Warren's healthy and young appearance.

"Oh this is just the result of some new fast acting medicine I started taking and some moisturizer and wrinkle cream I'm using. Real affective stuff. Truly a marvel of advanced medical science." Said Warren.

"Are the girls and BMO up yet?" Asked Jermaine.

"Oh they woke up hours ago and I pointed them towards our planet's market. They're probably just shopping and exploring." Said Warren.

"Cool. So what's are next move pops, do we go seek out Ishcano or do we just wait for him to show his ugly evil butt here?" Asked Jake.

Warren was fixing to respond when he looked outside the window and his eyes went wide with shock. Finn, Jake, and Jermaine looked out the window and let out a collective gasp of shock. A massive blue octopus-like creature was moving across the planet's surface and the alien citizens were running from it and screaming. The monster was a terrifying sight with multiple tentacles, five big red eyes, and a large mouth full of jagged teeth.

"Its Ishcano!" Yelled Warren.

"Speak of the devil and he will appear." Muttered Jermaine.

"Don't worry will deal with him." Said Finn as he pulled out his sword.

"Yeah." Asked Jermaine as he pulled out a dagger and a crossbow.

"You two will do no such thing." Said Warren.

"What?" Asked Finn as he and Jermaine looked at Warren with confusion.

"Look I know you mean well and your both seem like capable warriors, but this is Jake's fight. It's his destiny. Many other warriors tried to go against Ishcano before this day and they all died. You'll meet the same end if you try and fight Ishcano." Said Warren.

Finn and Jermaine looked like they wanted to argue, but Jake raised his hand and stopped them.

"Pop is right. This is fate. I'm going to kick Ishcano to the curb and we're going to celebrate afterwards." Said Jake.

"Let us begin." Said Warren.

The little group headed outside to the Panzark.

"You must enter the Panzark using your stretchy powers Jake and move through all the tubes to activate the device. The Panzark will unleash powerful beams of energy that will shoot out and strike Ishcano and reduce him to cosmic dust." Explained Warren.

Jake nodded in understanding as he took a deep breath and entered the Panzark through a small tube. He began stretching and stretching throughout the device, as Warren, Finn, Jermaine, and several alien citizens cheered him on. Ishcano crawled towards the group with his tentacles slithering about. The top of the Panzark began to glow and a bright blue beam of lightning shoot out and struck one of Ishcano's tentacles. The tentacle exploded into a blue cloud and Ishcano screamed in pain. Jake heard this and it encouraged him to keep stretching. He stretched and stretched with all his might determine to defeat Ishcano. More beams of light shot out of the Panzark tasking out more of Ishcano's tentacles. Jake continued to stretch as more wrinkles appeared on his body and he felt himself grow weaker and weaker, but he refused to stop. Outside the Panzark, Warren was looking younger and his wrinkles were vanishing. A grin spread across Warren's face. Everything was going according to plan. More energy from the Panzark struck Ishcano and it looked like the monster was fixing to go down.

"Just a little more Jake!" Yelled Warren.

"Come on bro!" Cheered Finn.

"You can do it!" Cheered Jermaine.

Jake continued to stretch, when all of a sudden there was a loud boom that stopped everything and got everyone's attention. Gata came smashing out from the cave a few hundred yards away in the BMO mech and flew into the sky, with Phoebe flying right behind them. The mech flew towards Ishcano and delivered a powerful double punch that knocked the monster to the ground. Warren let out a pained gasp as he put a hand to his head and stumbled back as Ishcano hit the ground. Phoebe flew over to the Panzark and banged her fist on it and shouted.

"Jake stop what your doing and get out of there!"

Jake not sure what was going on, crawled out of the device and resumed his normal shape. Finn, Phoebe, and Jermaine gasped as they saw how old and weak Jake looked now. Jake let out a groan and leaned his back against the Panzark. Gata landed BMO next to the group, looked at her old and weakened brother, and then she looked at Warren who was looking young and strong. Warren gave Gata and BMO a nervous smile as they glared at him. It took Gata a minute to figure out what was going on with Jake and Warren.

"Take that belt off of Jake." Said Gata.

Jermaine took the Galaxy Savior belt off of Jake.

"Now it's time you tell us the truth." Said Gata glaring at Warren.

"Truth?" Said Warren.

"Yeah the truth! I think I have it all figured out. Everything you've told us has been a lie. All those bodies in the cave weren't Ishcano's victims, they were yours. Those bodies were your previous children. You brought them here and told them the same fake story as Jake and then you drained them of their youth and life force, so you could live longer. After you drained them you just dumped their bodies in that cave and repeated the process all over again. Your children were nothing more then batteries to you." Said Gata.

"Pops...is that true?" Asked Jake looking stunned.

Warren let out a sigh and shook his head in awe. Then he let out a chuckle and grinned.

"I must admit your very bright. I did have several children and drained them of their life force in order to live longer."

"Why would...you do something like that?" Asked Jermaine in shock.

"Well I guess I'll tell you my background. You see I'm an actual shapeshifter from Nerraw, though the planet were on isn't it. Anyhow my people were a great and powerful advanced race, but despite all that we were not immune to death and old age. My people saw death and old age as a natural part of the cycle of the universe, but I didn't agree with them. I took a ship and eventually landed on this little planet claiming it as my own and I set up a lab here. For years I worked and studied to try to figure out how to stay young and live forever. I soon became old and I realized I was running out of time, so using some of the fruits of my labor and came up with a plan to restore my youth and extend my life. After some searching on some nearby worlds I found a compatible creature with the right genetic traits and inprexgnanted with a child. I then waited for the child to grow older before claiming them and bringing them back to this planet were I fabricated the whole hero and Ishcano story and got the child to ware my special belt. You see the belts act a conduit. Every time one of my children wears my belt and stretches it drains their youth and life force and transfers it to me. As you can plainly see it's been very successful over the years and I've been able to continue on with my work." Said Warren.

"That's messed up man! Your seriously evil!" Said Finn with anger in his eyes as he pointed a finger at Warren.

"Death is the evil one. He takes the lives of loved ones. My research will prevent that from happening. I had to make sacrifices, but the ends will justify the means. I just need a couple more years and I'll have eternal youth figured out and then immortality will soon follow. Once I have that I'll offer my final product to the richest beings in the universe and live a eternity in luxury and fame. Death will no longer hold any fear or power over me!" Declared Warren with an insane laugh.

It was a decree of selfishness and insanity that just stunned and disgusted everyone present, except for the other aliens.

"What's the deal with these other aliens?" Asked Phoebe.

"Oh they, along with Ishcano, and a good percentage are actually extensions of myself. They're all a bunch of skin and blood cells I stretched out and use to help me out. Now if you excuse me I'm going to have to kill you and finish draining Jake. It's nothing personal it's just business." Said Warren as the aliens and Ishcano surrounded the group.

To be continued.